great camera work


Anyone else notice that the camera tracks and zooms a lot, has combination zoom and crane shots, and ankle level low angle shots? Or the carefully composed action shots? All way ahead of its time. This movie looked fantastic!

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Thank you for the post. I noticed the sharpness of the camera work and was just about comment on it myself! One shot that stands out to me has been the scene where they are going to execute the civilians, and the Reverend opens up on the Germans. It was a well composed shot and it obviously made an impression on me!

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Lewis Milestone was the director. He used that same tracking shot technique in All Quiet on the Western Front.

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